OK I've now rummaged... I'm on the "unlimited use" 23.44 package, not
the 1Gb only.  I'm also getting 576kbps, not a mere 500.  The extra 10%
makes all the difference.  Not.  As does the 50p cheaper than AOL.

Free modem?  Yes, and there's a story.  It arrived - installed - ran
system for a week - system died.  I'd heard stories that the modem draw
a fair bit of power - Alcatel frog - so I assumed that was what was
wrong, and bought another MB.  Nope, that wasn't it.  Luckily the
replacement one takes SD ram as well as DD, and I found it was the RAM.
  How the Fk the modem can take out the RAM is beyond me. Anyone like
to buy a motherboard, only run for 10 minutes?  (actually, I thought of
ebay, and it's only worth a tenner so better to keep as a spare).

Back to the point though, the free modem now lives in its box in the
cupboard & I have a Netgear router on the wall so my sons can use the
internet with my PC off/rebooting/etc.  The netgear's a pretty good
device, seemed to survive BT's antics last year better when the rain got
into the cables.  (BT couldn't work out what was going on, and it took a
while before my neighbour and I worked out that either of us could
connect, but not both at once)

Andy.